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Selecting objects in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2026 Essential Training
Selecting objects in your AutoCAD drawings
- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now where we're going to take a look at how we modify objects in our AutoCAD drawings. Now, in order to modify your objects in AutoCAD, you need to be able to select them, and that's a really important feature of AutoCAD. And I want to dive deeper into that about how you select your objects in your AutoCAD drawings. Now we've got a drawing for you. You can see it on the screen. It's called officelayout.dwg. You know the drill by now. Download it from the library to follow along with the videos in this chapter, and there'll be a number of little iterations of this drawing as we work through this chapter. As we build up and develop the office layout, you'll see that there's some revisions of the drawing as we go through. I'll explain which DWG file you need for which video in this particular chapter. Now, as you can see, it's a very simple little office layout. We've got a little door there with some walls and some partitions. And on the right…
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Selecting objects in your AutoCAD drawings6m 46s
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Using Move and Copy in your AutoCAD drawings4m 19s
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Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings6m 3s
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Using Mirror and Offset in your AutoCAD drawings6m 45s
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Using smart placement of blocks to your advantage2m 37s
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Using Break and Join in your AutoCAD drawings7m 17s
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Using grips and grip editing in your AutoCAD drawings5m 26s
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Using Boundaries with your AutoCAD drawings4m 14s
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Using Fillet and Chamfer on AutoCAD geometry4m 55s
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Using Divide and Measure for accurate drafting in AutoCAD9m 14s
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Editing polylines and splines quickly and accurately in AutoCAD8m 24s
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Using Trim and Extend for accurate and precise drafting in AutoCAD4m 11s
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Creating and using arrays in your AutoCAD drawings8m 27s
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Using Stretch and Lengthen to edit AutoCAD geometry5m 5s
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